Would you pay $119 to test for red hair gene?
January 30, 2009 by Grace Ibay
Filed under Health
Red hair is among the rarest of hair colors, with only 1% of the population having that natural hair.
I personally think red hair makes heads turn. Check out these natural red-heads: Julianne Moore, Lindsay Lohan, Sarah Ferguson, Marcia Cross and of course, Prince Harry (and great grannie Queen Elizabeth I).
Auburn, ginger, bright orange, carrot-top: they are all the same red hair, and most would be sharing the same gene.
Some variants of the melanocortin 1 receptor (MC1R) gene are strongly associated with red hair. The gene codes for a receptor that is expressed on pigment cells in …read more




